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"Never knew hi "It

is veryall you have

said, I cannot believe hi,

at least?"

The starved apothecary looked at him out of a pair of hollow, ," was his plaintive reply

"I understand You shall have it Are you sure you can do nothingwhatever, sir; and excuse me, but there are customers in the

shop, and I ly; and Sir Norman was left alone with all that

remained of him who, two hours before, was his warm friend He could

scarcely believe that it was the caled

the expression of that white face, and yet, the longer he looked, the

more deeply an inward conviction assured hi hands and face, he applied hartshorn and burnt feathers to

the nostrils, but all these applications, though excellent in their way,

could not exactly raise the dead to life, and, in this case, proved

a signal, failure He gave up his doctoring, at last, in despair, and

folding his arms, looked down at what lay on the table, and tried

to convince himself that it was Ormiston So absorbed was he in the

endeavor, that he heeded not the passing ht even noaiting for hi-place, with news of Leoline Love is stronger than friendship,